University of North Carolina opens new dental school facility

News release: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has dedicated its newest facility, the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, to enable the School of Dentistry to expand. Some of the key features of the 216,000-square-foot building of the project: a signature 220-seat grand lecture hall with video conferencing and distance-learning technology; two 120-seat lecture halls, one capable of two-way distance learning; a 105-seat simulation laboratory giving students the opportunity to learn and develop their clinical skills before providing care to patients; and five 30-seat seminar rooms for graduate seminars and small group discussions, one equipped for distance learning via live lecture broadcasts over the Web or through direct audiovisual feed.